->''"Human, have you ever been to Hell? I think not. I'd rather not exist than go back to that... and if I have to drag down everyone else with me... so be it."''-->-- '''Azrael''', ''Film/{{Dogma}}''

For some villains, [[TakeOverTheWorld Global Domination]] is no good. You take over the world, AndThenWhat More misery! Ditto on the universe or TheMultiverse. Nope. It all has to go. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Everything has to be destroyed, every speck of life killed, every mote of light extinguished]]. No, this isn't reshaping reality InTheirOwnImage, however that trick works. This is the need for oblivion and taking everyone else down first.

Possibly, the villain has a reason for this. Maybe they're some kind of CosmicHorrorStory version of ThePunishment, and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds destroying reality is the only way to end their own pain.]] (Or their ego is too big to just kill themselves. No, they have to be ''dramatic'' about it.)

But more often then not, they're a StrawNihilist; and just wanna show everyone who is boss. What's mystifying is when these type seem to genuinely like existing and interacting with the world. What exactly are they going to ''do'' should they succeed? AndThenWhat Where, as WesternAnimation/TheTick puts it, would they put all their stuff? In this case, they often [[VillainsActHeroesReact exist only for the Heroes to have someone to stop.]]

The third variety is the final resort, they wanted to TakeOverTheWorld, but now that you've beaten (or even possibly mortally injured) them they're [[TakingYouWithMe taking everything with them.]] They don't mind dying anymore.

If any villains have TakeOverTheWorld as their goal, they logically should ''not'' want this to succeed. Can result in EvilVersusOblivion.

Related to the OmnicidalManiac, who does this kind of thing; many of that trope's examples plan on sticking around afterwards, however. See also: ApocalypseHow, Class Z.

See PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery for a likely motivation behind this kind of behavior.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', the ultimate goal of the Mazoku is to return all existence to Chaos, including themselves. It was most explicitly pointed out by Hellmaster Fibrizo:-->'''Hellmaster:''' "I want to be destroyed. I want to be destroyed! Destruction? Yes... Destruction is the ultimate wish of any Mazoku. [...] But this destruction shall consume all things! It shall consume the entire world! [...] All the world! Let all the world be destroyed with me!"** In ''Slayers Try'', this is also the goal of the otherdimensional [[spoiler: [[Anime/LostUniverse Vorfeed and Dark Star Dugradigdu]]]], supreme Shinzoku and Mazoku of their universe. After realizing how pointless their existence of warfare and endless, cyclic confrontation was, they [[spoiler:merged as one entity]] and went on to destroy their universe as a cosmic TakeThat [[RageAgainstTheHeavens to their creator]]. Lucky for them, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Valgaav]] proved the perfect conduit for them in [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Ceipheed/Shabranigdu]]'s universe...* Folken in ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' the movie. He wants to extinguish all the misery and suffering from the world by wiping everybody from existence, himself included. His nihilism very briefly appeals to the protagonist who suffers from a bad case of teenager's angst, but pretty soon common sense wins.* ''Manga/ImmortalRain'': Yuca wants to stop his cycle of {{reincarnation}}. The only solution he's found is to wipe out the entire human race.* This is the end goal of ''Manga/RaveMaster'' villain Hardner, who tries to summon the [[EldritchAbomination Eldtritch]] [[ClockRoaches Clock Roach]] Endless to wipe out his own painful memories.* At the end of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure,'' when Apocalymon had his claw-things and the humanoid figure we ''thought'' was actually him destroyed, he threw a hissy and decided to nuketify the Human World and Digital World in one shot. The heroes defeated him by [[spoiler: standing around going "Oh noes!" until their {{Transformation Trinket}}s spontaneously formed a force field in a classic example of DeusExMachina, containing the blast]].* Slightly more realistic example: [[spoiler: [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Rau Le Creuset]]]] the BigBad of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'', is a dying [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues clone]] of a man he hated]]. Sick, angry at the world, and convinced that HumansAreBastards, he turns DeathSeeker and tries to [[OmnicidalManiac take everything]] with him before he goes.* Though most of the Big Bads of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' simply want to take over the galaxy, Pharaoh 90 appears to want to completely obliterate the world with The Silence for no other reason than he can.** There's an entire subtrope of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' fanfiction as well that takes this route. Typically, someone (usually a rogue band of senshi) decides that destroying the Galaxy Cauldron (where souls are born) will end the recursive nature of war in the galaxy. This would also result in no new souls being born and old souls having no way to be reincarnated, effectively ending existence eventually. In fact, Sailor Cosmos intends to do this in the canon story, and is only persuaded not to do so by Sailor Moon's belief that the beauty of life more than makes up for eternal war.* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' - It's "only" the eradication of all human life on earth, but [[spoiler:Gendo]] seems to be shooting for that goal. In the end, it's [[spoiler:Shinji]] who triggers it with his suicidal despair..* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':** DBZ villains in general are fond of this. Cell tried to self-destruct and take the Earth with him upon realizing he couldn't beat Gohan, and Majin Buu later tries the same thing (although that was a subversion, as it was a trick to buy time).** In a filler episode, Super Buu attempts to do this in his fight against [[StoryBreakerPower Vegito]] once he realizes that he is hopelessly outmatched. Unlike other examples in the show, Super Buu was so powerful his tantrum was implied to be capable of destroying all of existence. Luckily Vegito ends it with just one punch.** Even predating Frieza, Vegeta pulled this by attempting to destroy the Earth (without having shown the ability to breathe in space and/or travel without a space pod) because he couldn't accept the idea of a low class warrior landing a hit on him and was willing to die ''so long as Goku did too.''[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]* Creator/PeterDavid's ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' (the one with Rick Jones, the latter one) has gone full on looney tunes, mainly because he knows everything. With the assistance of the personification of Entropy (Marvel Comics loves their personifications) Captain Marvel ends all of reality. ''Off panel.'' 'Cept Rick, Entropy and the Cap. Rick convinces Entropy to become his "dad", Infinity and the universe is rebooted.* ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' played with this. When informed that he can either take his father's position or let every universe in reality fall apart, unable to get over his daddy issues Lucifer begins an extremely arduous quest to fix the problem some other way.** Fenris is pretty much made of this trope, and Lilith is getting there. She throws a temper tantrum in front of God, demanding him to destroy the universe for putting so much pain in it, while He ponders if he should do just that.* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'': Once Darkseid is [[spoiler:fatally poisoned by the radion bullet]], he decides to take the rest of the universe with him, hastening the decay of space-time that his rebirth had already started.* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'', Xenon is so mad at being magically-sealed inside an other-dimensional prison by Supergirl than he is more than willing to destroy the whole existence out of despite.* Several ''ComicBook/XMen'' ''ComicBook/WhatIf''s were written between ComicBook/JeanGrey's death and [[NeverLiveItDown resurrection]] in the '80s that showed [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Phoenix going Dark again]] and doing this, had she survived her final battle. Presumably the editors [[ExecutiveMeddling really, really wanted to keep her dead...]] until they didn't. While What If stories ''do'' show Dark Phoenix [[ApocalypseHow destroying the universe]], it's not entirely clear that this would be considered suicidal from Dark Phoenix's standpoint, as [[{{Immortality}} she might very well survive the destruction of the universe]]. Even post-resurrection, an issue of ''Comicbook/{{Exiles}}'' had a mission where they had to make sure Jean died, lest Dark Phoenix destroy the universe.* ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #32 ended with a giant Korvac sitting on Earth in a state of bottomless despair, and holding the Ultimate Nullifier. He thinks of everything that ever was, is and will be, and presses the button.* This was a major plot point in Marvel's ComicBook/SecretWarsII, where the Beyonder threatened to destroy all reality because he couldn't find a meaning to existence.* This Trope describes M-Day in a nutshell. The Scarlet Witch caused it all in [[RealityWarper one fit of rage and grief]] after she recovered the memories of her children. While the incident in question lasted only a day, the ramifications led to the entire ''Comic/{{Decimation}}''* Near the end of Fleetway's ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]], tired of his constant failures to beat Sonic, decides to bring the game to an end by destroying Mobius outright, using a machine to drain the planet's life force and cause complete ecological collapse. When Sonic manages to put a stop to that plan, Robotnik becomes incredibly depressed, to which his right-hand man, Grimer, releases the [[EldritchAbomination Chaos creature]] upon Mobius in the hopes that its rampage will motivate Robotnik to continue conquering Mobius. Instead, Robotnik brings the Chaos Emeralds to his lair for one reason: to bring his enemies and Chaos to him so they would all die together as Chaos absorbed the Emeralds and destroyed the planet. Fortunately, [[YouSeeImDying a dying]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Super Sonic]] arrives at that moment and absorbs all of Chaos' energy to restore himself. As a result of this final failure, by the time of [[Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline the online continuation]], Robotnik has undergone a complete VillainousBreakdown, reduced to little more than a drooling vegetable.* ''ComicBook/TheGrievousJourneyOfIchabodAzrael'': After Ichabod discovers that his love Zoe only existed as a fabrication, he kills TheFerryman and dooms all of reality to destruction out of spite.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fanfic]]* In the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' fanfic [[http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/19769 The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13]], [[TopGod Fate]] suffers one of these when he realises he's been outplayed, causing stars to explode and dimensional positions to shift.* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':** In Act III chapter 50, Luna, after killing Kiria, has gone so insane with grief over Rason's death that she's willing to let the Chrono Displacement spell destroy the world, but Tsukune manages to get through to her and change the spell date to one day, allowing him to go back and save everyone.** In Act IV, the extent of Hokuto's plan is to revive Alucard and then just sit back and watch as Alucard destroys the world, because he's firmly convinced that [[StrawNihilist all life, human and monster alike, is an evil and meaningless plague that must be eradicated]].[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films]]* Azrael, the mastermind behind the plot of ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', fits the bill. Being trapped in Hell forever is a pretty compelling motive for wanting to undo existence. He also claims that since he didn't fight on either side during Lucifer's rebellion, he should not have to suffer the same fate as those who ''did'' fight God.* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' [[spoiler:ends with Marty and Dana, the ''protagonists'', throwing one, having been so traumatized by the tortures they've been subjected to that they decide humanity deserves to die if it needs to keep practicing such cruel rituals to survive.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]* In Creator/GuyGavrielKay's ''Literature/TheFionavarTapestry'', this is the motivation not so much of the BigBad as of his [[TheDragon Dragon]]. The reason? Long ago, he couldn't get the woman he considered his One True Love (she went with a mere human instead, who became Fionavar's first wizard) and swore an oath that he would end the world that had witnessed his rejection; how and whether he's planning to survive at all if and when he succeeds isn't clear, but towards the end of the trilogy he gets the chance to try. [[spoiler:He fails, though only through the timely arrival of the one character who can stop what he's just unleashed -- and in the process learns to his own surprise that he's not yet beyond redemption himself.]]* In ''The Courts of Chaos'' (book 5 in the ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber''), a giant tries to convince Corwin to stop trying to save the multiverse. Corwin, of course, refuses to give up.** Corwin is an interesting case, because eventually he starts trying to inscribe a new Pattern based partly on his memory of the old one and partly on hints the Jewel of Judgement is giving him. Note that he doesn't know for certain whether the old Pattern still exists or not, and he ''really'' doesn't know what will happen if there are two primal Patterns in the universe at the same time. While he's not ''trying'' to destroy the universe, he realizes there's a distinct possibility of that happening, and decides he's willing to risk it, largely because he's ''just that pissed'' at his brother.* Similarly, in Swanwick's ''Literature/TheIronDragonsDaughter'', Jayne and Melanchthon end up trying [[spoiler:unsuccessfully]] to destroy the universe because their lives have sucked so much.* Utuk'ku, the Norn Queen in ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'', is the oldest living being in the world, and wants to drag as much of the world as possible with her into death.* Subversion: The villain in the fifth ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novel harnesses a transcendental creature, and Clothahump assumes he intends to destroy the world with it as a grandiose form of suicide. As it turns out, though, [[spoiler:Braglob did it ForTheEvulz and had no specific plans for the thing at all]].* This is [[spoiler:the ultimate fate of the universe]] in Creator/HarlanEllison's ''The Region Between'', [[spoiler:destroyed by the same insane God that made it, who kills himself in the process.]]* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', this is [[spoiler: Moridin's]] ultimate goal. [[spoiler: He's a nihilist who is one of the few characters to really think through the implications of the EternalRecurrence of the Wheel, but can't conceive of it as anything but a cause for infinite, pointless suffering and misery. He's also a DeathSeeker in his own right, but [=WoT=]'s 'verse features reincarnation as a central element, so if he dies, he'll simply be born again. The solution? Willingly submit himself to [[TheAntiGod the Dark One]], the only being who has the power to destroy him and the world for good, and help him escape his [[SealedEvilInACan can]] so that he ''will'' destroy reality, and Moridin with it]]. * Kastenessen from the ''Last Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who wants to wipe out his people, the ''Elohim''[[note]]who hover somewhere between TheFairFolk and {{physical god}}s[[/note]] in revenge for their inflicting a FateWorseThanDeath on him. Any level of power sufficient to wipe out the ''Elohim'' would almost certainly destroy the world, and so long as he gets his revenge, Kastenessen just doesn't care that this would kill him too. Averted with the ''other'' half of the BigBadDuumvirate and the meta-series' recurring BigBad, [[GodOfEvil Lord Foul]], who ''also'' wants to destroy the world, but would be able to survive it (and indeed, the reason he wants to destroy the world in the first place is so he can escape it).* The Thrintun in ''Literature/KnownSpace'' had a big slave uprising problem, and were also unfortunately complete sore losers. The moment their slaves started to get the upper hand, they decided to drag every other living thing in the galaxy down with them, sending out a telepathic blast that wiped out almost every intelligent being in the galaxy - including their errant slaves and themselves. It took a billion years for lifeforms that weren't single-celled organisms to evolve back. Worth noting that it wasn't ''just'' bastardry: the Thrintun were so utterly stupid and unimaginative that to them, it seemed like a good idea at the time.* Downplayed in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'': {{Satan}} doesn't want to ''kill'' everyone, but he does want to ''torture'' everyone, and he includes himself in that.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]* In a fourth season story from ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Underwater Menace", Professor Zaroff, embittered because his wife died in a crash (at least in the original script), has the goal of making a hole in the seabed under the Atlantic so the erupting lava would boil away the ocean, destroying the Earth. Only the Earth would be destroyed, not the universe, but it still pretty much counts.** In "The Three Doctors," Omega, having discovered he can never leave his antimatter realm without destroying what's left of himself, vows to devote his remaining will to destroying "'''[[LargeHam ALLL THIIINGS!]]''' '''''[[NoIndoorVoice ALLLLLL THIIIIIINGS!!!]]'''''"* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':** Willow goes here after Tara's death results in a HeroicBSOD and Giles tricks her into feeling the pain of everyone in the world. It was supposed to fill her [[EmotionBomb with compassion]], and it [[GoneHorriblyRight did]]. Fortunately Xander manages to stop her.** Angelus tries to destroy the world with himself in it at the end of the second season. [[GenericDoomsdayVillain Why exactly is unclear.]]* [[spoiler:H.G. Wells]] tries to destroy the world in ''Series/{{Warehouse13}}'', because she sees it as beyond saving; thanks to the pain of [[spoiler:living with her daughter's death for 150ish years.]]* In the ending of ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', Princess Sailor Moon, in a fit of angsty rage, literally ended all life on Earth, turning the whole into a desert. This was, naturally, complete with shots of her friends and family disappearing in a white light. Just for the emotional kick. Things got better.* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': [[spoiler:The Darkness throws one in S11. After God tries to seal her back inside the Mark of Cain, she retaliates by draining the life from God, but doing it slowly enough that he'll get to watch all the light in the Universe slowly die with him. Since [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil darkness can only exist if there is light to contrast it with]], this means death for her too, and she knows it, but decides getting revenge on God is worth it.]] Fortunately, Dean talks her out of it.* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Anti!Lazarus from "The Alternative Factor". He [[spoiler:had an identity crisis when he discovered there was an exact duplicate of him in a parallel universe, and became obsessed with destroying the duplicate, knowing full well the chain reaction would destroy himself and his whole reality.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]%%* The final act of Music/{{Fireaxe}}'s 4-hour epic ''Music/FoodForTheGods'' revolves around one of these being thrown by literally every being in creation that didn't get into heaven.* The Wormboy throws one in Music/MarilynManson's ConceptAlbum ''Music/AntichristSuperstar'' when he destroys all of reality. [[/folder]]

[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]* Surtr from Myth/NorseMythology is destined to engage in one at Ragnarök. At the end of the battle between the gods and frost giants, he will unleash a fire that will engulf the Earth and [[KillTheGod killing all but four of the gods]] in order to get revenge for the gods drowning all but two of the Frost Giants during the world's creation. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu The resulting fire will also kill all the monsters and giants, including Surtr himself]].[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Tharizdun from 3.5 and earlier fits this trope to a strong degree, as his ultimate goal is the destruction of the entire universe. Reasons given for this include it being a natural result of his being the god of entropy and destruction to him having gone mad after touching a shard of Pure Evilness (tm), which may or may not have been the only remains of the previous universe.* The [[OmnicidalManiac Deathlords]] of ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' all have the canonical aim of 'being the last person there to blow out the candle of creation', in direct service of their [[EldritchAbomination Neverborn Masters]]. This also presumably extends to any [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor loyalist]] [[DarkisNotEvil Abyssal Exalted]]. Mind you, for the Neverborn, this isn't so much "wiping out the world because it won't have me" as it is "someone, ''please'' just pull the plug" -- they can't die because their souls are bound to Creation, so they're just caught in an endless state of agony.* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' strongly suggests this is the driving goal of [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm]]. Once a being that brought the blessed end to all things, it became trapped in the webs of reality and grew constricted to the point it turned gangrenous, going from a merciful end to slow rot and decay. Some part of it, mad as it is, may realize that degrading reality enough will let it free, to either rampage across creation or seek a swift death.* In ''TabletopGame/SirenTheDrowning'', this is the whole point of the [[StrawNihilist Current of Acheron]]; they honestly believe the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness is an irredeemable CrapsackWorld, and the only option is to destroy it entirely. * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':** [[ChaoticEvil Rovagug]] wishes to destroy absolutely everything. He has no allies in the cosmology at all, to the point that if he were to be released, ''every single god'', no matter their enmity or evil -- even the [[LawfulEvil Archdevil Asmodeus]] and the [[ChaoticEvil ascended Demon Princess Lamashtu]] -- would ally with each other to stand against him.** The Daemons hate everyone and everything that lives. This includes themselves, they just hate everything that isn't them ''more''. Daemonic victory would involve the extermination of all other beings, following by their slaughter of each other, until the final daemon briefly surveys a multiverse devoid any life -- and kills itself for lack of anything else left to hate.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Videogames]]* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'':** The destruction of the multiverse is Count Bleck's goal in vengeance for [[spoiler:his lover's apparent death]]. He finds an ArtifactOfDoom and a TomeOfEldritchLore just for this goal, and promptly begins to use them to destroy one universe after the other.** [[spoiler:Dimentio]] falls back on this plan after his OneWingedAngel form is defeated (his original plan was remaking everything in his own image, his last resort was to leave the Chaos Heart/Void going and take everything out with him).* Kuja in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX'' is a true example of the "temper tantrum" part of the trope and probably the best example from a ''Final Fantasy'' game. Upon discovering he's a mortal and is an ArtificialHuman who's due to expire any day now because he was only a temporary pawn, he decides if he doesn't get to live, why should anyone else? He's so selfish and arrogant he doesn't think it's ''fair'' that life will continue after he's dead.** [[spoiler:Neo-]]Exdeath from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' wishes to draw everything into the Void, and then disappear himself. This isn't out of anger like Kuja; it's just what he does.** What StrawNihilist Kefka wanted to do in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVI'', although it was never clear whether he intended to destroy himself afterward. ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' implies it's because he's unable to understand the point of life, thus he wants to destroy everything because everything else is meaningless to him.** ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX'': Implicit in Seymour's EvilPlan--he views death as a wonderful release from the suffering of life, hence everything deserves the so-called mercy of dying. However, given the weird way death works in Spira, it isn't that he wants to destroy everything for the sake of destroying it, Seymour [[WellIntentionedExtremist actually thinks death is a step up from life]]--death didn't much slow down [[spoiler:Auron, Yunalesca and Seymour himself]] when they died, and [[spoiler:Yunalesca has been dead for 1000 years]]. Of course, that's not to say his {{plan}} was well thought out, because killing everyone in an apocalyptic fashion would probably cause them to become Fiends, as they would die painful, horrible deaths.** The focus behind the Twist Reveal in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' with the ''Chains of Promathia'' expansion where [[spoiler: it is revealed that all beings on Vana'diel are parts of the Twilight God Promathia, and his belief that destroying all those loose parts of himself are the only way he can die and free himself of the pain of existence.]]** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', Chaos decides to tear apart the combined realities that make up the battlefield for the conflict of the Gods, and then disappear himself. Its due in part to just being ''sick'' of the endless cycles of conflict, death, and rebirth, and in part because [[spoiler:Cosmos' death has triggered a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment for him when he realized they used to rule together in peace before the wars began.]]** The fal'Cie's plan in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' [[spoiler:is a convoluted plot to use humans to kill the main power source of their floating continent, causing the ship to crash into the mainland, and killing so many people in the process that it rips open the gates of hell and allows the fal'Cie to see their creator god again. The plan's catalyst, Orphan, allows himself to be born solely to get himself killed.]] The only problem is, [[IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing they don't know if it will even work, but go whole-hog on it anyway]].** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 The sequel's]] villain Caius wants to ''destroy time'' to end the suffering of a seeress who is continuously reborn over and over again since the beginning of time. Eventually it turns out MotiveDecay has set in long ago and he's just doing this to make ''himself'' feel better. [[spoiler:Too bad TheBadGuyWins, but [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII the third game]] has you correcting this.]]* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. The titular mask contains a quite lunatic and uncontrollable spirit that thought it'd be a hilarious prank to destroy the world by making the moon collide with it. Even the moon doesn't like this idea!** Previous incarnations of Ganon tried to TakeOverTheWorld, but in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' Calamity Ganon has lost so much of his previous human self that he merely wants to destroy everything. [[spoiler:Before the final battle against Dark Beast Ganon, Zelda states that Ganon has even given up on a proper resurrection into a physical body just so he can funnel all his remaining power into pure destructive force.]]* Ghadius from ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}: Door to Phantomile'' attempts to destroy the world as revenge for being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] 3000 years ago. He doesn't care that his plan would destroy him along with the rest of Phantomile.** The King of Sorrow from the sequel appears to be attempting the same thing, as by linking the Kingdom of Sorrow to Lunatea is implied to cause some degree of destruction.* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'': According to the ''Diablo I'' manual, the minions of Baal, the Lord of Destruction, seek the undoing of the universe.* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarChainsOfOlympus'', BigBad [[spoiler:Persephone hires the Titan Atlas to use the kidnapped sun god Helios' powers to destroy the pillar that holds the world up, causing it, Olympus, and the underworld to crash down on top of each other and kill everyone. It's a form of suicide-revenge; she's tired of living in a loveless marriage to Hades, and wants to get back at her husband and Zeus for trapping her in it, believing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to be a fitting way of solving both problems. She doesn't seem terribly happy about it, but she just cannot take it anymore. It's the first hint at just what an [[JerkassGods enormous bunch of dicks]] Kratos is dealing with here]].** Kratos himself goes on one starting in the second game. Already pissed at the gods for short-changing him at the end of the first one, Zeus draining his godly power and trying to kill him drives the already-unstable Spartan into psychotic, homicidal madness. He becomes bound and determined to kill Zeus, who's basically acting as the lynchpin of creation, and will mercilessly slaughter the incarnations of the sun, ocean, sky, underworld and any other vital parts of existence if they try to stop him. When the dust clears and Kratos is all tantrumed out, he's left standing amidst [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]]. [[VillainProtagonist OUR HERO, EVERYONE.]]%%* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', [[spoiler:the Armageddon Ending, triggered as a ''menu command'']].* This crops up repeatedly throughout Creator/NipponIchi games, usually with an emphasis on "temper tantrum". Often, it's a NonstandardGameOver that happens if the player decides be be a wise-ass and grind up enough to win the HopelessBossFight.** ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}'' can end with [[spoiler:Laharl]] destroying the world in a pique, or [[spoiler:Rozalin dead, but Adell possessed, and he not only slaughters his own family, but it's strongly suggested that the rest of reality will soon follow suit]]** Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': beating [[spoiler:Feinne]] too early results in [[spoiler:Asagi]] shattering the FourthWall to pieces and pulling the game so far OffTheRails that the game has to start over.** Then played very much ''[[PlayedForDrama not]]'' for laughs in the Demon Path. If you win the final battle, [[spoiler:Revya kills both Haephnes and Drazil and erases both their worlds from existence, killing everything on them and him/herself as well.]] Any last words as they watch all creation fall to fathomless emptiness and their own being annihilate itself? Oh yes:-->'''[[spoiler:Revya:]]''' It doesn't matter. It was ''[[ForTheEvulz fun]]''. ''(CriticalExistenceFailure)''* Elvin Atombender in ''VideoGame/ImpossibleMission'' is a MadScientist who plans to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the planet]] by cracking the world's nuclear launch codes.* [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Zero/Zero-Two]] from the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series [[TearsOfBlood seems to be]] of the first type, or at least it is universally portrayed as such.%%* Antignarot of ''VideoGame/JaysJourney'' resorts to this, type 2 (and more out of insanity than anything else), when Jay talks him out of trying to TakeOverTheWorld.* If you can untangle the MindScrew of a plot, [[spoiler:the Time Devourer]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' is basically undergoing one of these. After the canon ending of [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the original game]], the resident EldritchAbomination [[spoiler:absorbed Princess Schala]], and the influence of [[spoiler:a conflicted human intelligence]] warped Lavos's simple, mindless hunger into a desire to destroy ''everything'' to wipe the universe clean. [[spoiler:When you fight it as the final boss, it's in the process of absorbing all of time and space, leaving it alone in the abyss. The only way to permanently stop it is to use the titular [[MacGuffin Chrono Cross]] to separate Lavos and Schala]].* ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'':** Every one of Nyarlathotep's plans in the series. Nyarlathotep is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of humanity's most chaotic and self-destructive urges, so his entire being requires him to destroy humanity even if it would unmake him to succeed. It only hits "temper tantrum" levels at the end of ''VideoGame/Persona2: Innocent Sin'' when he [[spoiler:teleports Ideal-sensei in to stab Maya with [[TheLanceOfLonginus the Spear of Longinus]], fulfilling the rumor-powered prophecy of the end of the world]], after being legitimately beaten by the "rules" between him and Philemon.** ''VideoGame/Persona3'': Takaya is pretty much this. Similar to Kuja, knowing he's going to die leads him to the conclusion that everyone else should die as well.* While the Ten Wise Men from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' seek to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the Universe]] as their primary goal, [[spoiler:Gabriel[=/=]Indalecio figures that if he cannot rule, he will destroy everything. The Crest[=/=]Symbol of Annihilation is set to activate with the expiration of his life force, which is designed to bring about the end of everything by generating sufficient mass-energy to collapse the universe into a Big Crunch.[[note]]Thankfully diverted by countermeasures devised by the Nede Defense Force[[/note]]]]* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' this is actually [[spoiler:one of the four possible endings]] because the White are convinced that even if you are successful on the [[spoiler:Neutral or Chaos paths]] it will just be a temporary setback for [[spoiler:YHVH. Even should his order be upheld, Blasted and Infernal Tokyo exist to remind you that humans will always long for what was lost, leading to an utterly pointless ViciousCycle of {{Full Circle Revolution}}s]].* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', [[spoiler:Kerghan]] has decided that because being alive is painful (summoned spirits suffer terribly from being forced back into life as well) and the final afterlife is perfect bliss, the logical solution is to end all life. This is not out of spite, however: he thinks he's doing everyone a favor. One of your party member (who will die and get resurrected if you follow his storyline) will even agrees that the afterlife really is better, but would rather have people choose to go there instead of being forced to.* The BigBad of both ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius'' games [[spoiler:Has tried to incite a continent-wide war so it can awaken the Goddess of Order. He believes she is the only person who can finally kill him (he has tried repeatedly to kill himself, to no avail) and free himself from FantasticRacism and self-loathing. He is extremely happy to fight you to the death, hoping he'll lose.]]* At the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Corypheus]]]] opens a second breach after a ''[[HumiliationConga very]]'' long series of losses to force the Inquisitor to either come and fight him or allow the world to end.* An interesting variation occurs in ''VideoGame/TheBlackwellSeries'', where a ghost ''cannot'' [[GhostlyGoals move on]] and decides destroying the entire system is the only way to end their existence without going insane. At one point they stop, and ask the heroes if they have any option, anything that can do what they want without destroying everything. The heroine is actually speechless at this; and the ghost continues what they were doing. Possibly VillainHasAPoint since it takes an unforeseen DeusExMachina to fix it.* Sargaras in the ''Franchise/{{Warcraft}}'' franchise is a healthy mix of this and WellIntentionedExtremist. Eons of futilely fighting the immortal demons left him dangling on the DespairEventHorizon. Then when he witnessed a Void corrupted Titan Worldsoul he was so terrified by the possibility of what it would become and what it would do to the universe that he cleaved it in two without a second thought. When the rest of the Titans condemned him for this action and expressed a desire to try to purify such a thing he snapped. A universe devoid of life was infinitely preferable to the treat of a Void Titan arising, and so the Burning Legion was formed to scour the universe.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', an alternate-universe version of Minmax is one of these. He finds his way into a pocket universe (along with some of the main characters) and promptly sets in motion a plan to make it so that he, along with the pocket unierse and everyone in it, [[RetGone never existed]]. The reason he seeks out the pocket universe in question is because he does this by manipulating and retroactively destroying the "equation" that defines and creates anything in a given world. A full-scale universe has far too many variables to control for him to ever hope to succeed, but the pocket universe has small enough for ti to be feasible. [[spoiler:He's defeated when he's tricked into entering the portal back to his universe, preventing him from ever bringing his plans to fruition.]]* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' everyone ''thinks'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010730 Zorgon Gola]] is one of these. Creating this public image was [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010816 part of his]] EvilPlan. Note that not only does he have a PunnyName, his plan would have worked ''brilliantly'' if the SpannerInTheWorks main characters din't show up, and through their actions, destroy the Punyverse. How do they do it? By stealing the [[CombiningMecha crotch of]] [[HumongousMecha Gofotron]], letting a [[KillerRabbit small puppy]] detonate every sun in the Punyverse.* In ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'', Quelyn--Beluosus' firstborn sentient "Eve"--[[spoiler:is enraged when his initial plan to make himself a star (and thus, her the powerful daughter of a Sidera) fails and he calls her "superfluous." In response, she gives herself the power of fission, ravaging his surface and then ripping his entire planetary body apart. He barely survives as an orphaned manifest stone.]]* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', the [[AGodAmI Demiurge]] Jagganoth was raised as a child soldier in a brutal "corpse legion", then developed EnlightenmentSuperpowers and seized GodEmperor status during the Universal War. Now he's out to annihilate the Multiverse, thanks in part to a visitation from angels who believe it's the only cure for TheEvilsOfFreeWill and in part to [[ShellShockedVeteran post-traumatic stress disorder]] of literally cosmic scope.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', oblivion is the goal of the entire [[PlanetOfSteves Hey]] species, due to being ScaryDogmaticAliens who literally worship nothing.* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', this turns out to be the plan of the Highbreed; generations of inbreeding has made them all sterile, meaning they will die out soon. Since they consider themselves the MasterRace and hate the thought of all those "inferior" species outliving them, they've decided to personally make sure that every other species dies out before they do. * This is what the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 Shredder]]'s plan in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' boils down to; after discovering TheMultiverse and that there are Ninja Turtles ''everywhere'', he decides to go straight to the source ([[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the Mirage comics universe]]) and destroy all reality. Even after being explicitly told that he would die as well, he [[RevengeBeforeReason decides]] that it's WorthIt.** Ditto for the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 Shredder]], although he limits himself to just Earth. [[spoiler:After teaming up with the Turtles to save the planet from total destruction, he sees a perfect opportunity to kill Splinter and just can't resist, even if it means dooming everybody including himself. He then declares that he doesn't care if he dies now, he got to kill Splinter and that's good enough for him. Fortunately the Turtles, April, and Casey were able to escape via TimeTravel, setting up the next arc where they track down {{MacGuffin}}s across the galaxy needed to prevent the destruction of Earth before it happens.]]* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the episode "The Big Bang Theory", Bertram decides to travel back in time to RetGone Stewie by killing his ancestor, none other than [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Leonardo da Vinci]], unaware that, as a result of a time paradox, Stewie was the one that caused the Big Bang and that erasing him would destroy the universe, including himself. Even after Brian and Stewie tell him as such, Bertram, after a brief hesitation, promptly declares that getting rid of Stewie is worth the end of the universe and promptly shoots da Vinci dead. However, Stewie preserves events by [[MyOwnGrampa becoming his own ancestor]].* Owlman in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'', after learning that any choice made by anyone merely creates multiple parallel universes where each outcome happens, decides that free will is an illusion and all choices are meaningless... except for one: destroying the entire multiverse.-->'''Owlman:''' I choose to make the only possible real choice.* Spider-Carnage in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' wants to kill himself, [[OmnicidalManiac the planet]], and the entire ''multiverse'' because he [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds cannot cope with his own pain]]. He ultimately just [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]], sparing the multiverse. It helps that he's ''completely'' insane.* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': WordOfGod has confirmed, despite only being faintly implied in the show itself, that [[FallenHero Nightmare Moon]]'s plan to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds would have [[OmnicidalManiac killed every living thing in Equestria]] had it succeeded by [[SugarApocalypse slowly freezing the sun-deprived planet to death]]. If Nightmare Moon was aware of this consequence, this trope may have been her intention (depending on whether a [[PhysicalGod Physical Goddess]] requires food, oxygen, or warmth to survive). [[WordOfGod Word of]] [[Creator/LaurenFaust Faust]] says that Nightmare Moon, had she succeeded, would have ushered in "an era of evil"; though the death of all other life certainly fits this description, whether or not this precludes Nightmare Moon's suicide is up to you to decide.* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'', God's equally-omnipotent stepbrother blows up the world out of nowhere because he was angry about being TheUnFavorite.* An odd, somewhat heroic SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' short "SpaceMadness", where Ren (as Commander Hoek), having GoneMadFromTheIsolation, plots to take Stimpy (as Cadet Stimpy) with him by having him guard the History Eraser button, knowing he'd want to know WhatDoesThisButtonDo.* Possibly subverted at the end of the first ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' FiveEpisodePilot. Destro directs the M.A.S.S. Device to disintegrate the Earth's core, which will cause the world to explode. Even Cobra Commander thinks it's insane. ''But--'' tellingly, Destro uses the ensuing ruckus to run away, while G.I.Joe stops the catastrophe, as he (presumably) knew they would. It was only meant as a distraction, and it was a danged good one.[[/folder]]